Portland’s finally getting a week-long heatwave, which is gonna suh-uck. Monday through Saturday next week with highs hovering right around 100 and only dropping to the mid-upper 60s at night. On the Saturday it’s “only” up to 97 but that’s more than a week out so who knows. At least it’ll be dry during those days (apparently), which for Portland means around 25 percent relative humidity during the hottest part of the day.
Luckily I have AC in two bedrooms. Fingers crossed it doesn’t pick this time to die, and that the days following give us some relief. Still, given that it’ll be early August I’m not hopeful, and especially less than sanguine about the rest of that month, minimum.
Who and how much did Tennessee have to pay for that cold front?
Heat wave: F all these cities
KevinC
6027
I’m sorry the heat wave is moving east but it’s finally clearing out of Utah where we’ve dealt with two weeks straight of 100+ temps. As I posted 13 days ago:
We’re finally “cooling down” for the first time. Maybe. Current forecast:
I normally love summer, but I’m ready for a bit of a break at this point.
Don’t lambast me as a “Pssht-ster” but that’s not quite so bad since the nighttime temps went down. We had a four or five day run where the temp never got below 80 at any time, that’s the one that really hurts (plus humidity, of course.)
KevinC
6029
Yeah, that’s absolutely miserable when you can’t cool down at all. And humidity makes the heat infinitely worse. We’ve had a little humidity due to the monsoon up from the Gulf of California but that’s very much relative. It’s dry as a bone compared to the east and southeast.
Houngan
6030
Do you get some good convective breezes at night? I admit I know nothing about Utah other than my headcanon says it’s a bigass desert, so I would think the temp differences deliver some relatively decent air movement between day and night. While we often get lucky on the Ohio river and get a cool push from the North to offset the hot push from the South, in the dog days it seems to just sit here and bake out the moisture that was delivered a few weeks ago.
KevinC
6031
The mountains usually provide a breeze at night as the heavier cool air in the peaks moves down into the valley. Of course, the same phenomena results in temperature inversions in the winter where the cold gets trapped in the valley, basically bottling up all the air into a nice little icebox full of people driving combustion engines and the like. Which is less than awesome, at least until some low pressure moves through and breaks up the inversion.
RichVR
6032
Fear not people. The ice storms are warming up in the wings.
Houngan
6033
Fun aside, I grew up where we had a lake being filtered through sand for our drinking water, the twice-yearly inversions of the water made for some brown drinking. (and oddly, we were considered one of the wealthy families.)
Got a nice panorama of some high level clouds catching the last rays of sunshine tonight.
This smaller panorama turned out well too.
Djscman
6035
That’s Maxfield Parrish beautiful. Nice shot.
Nice Mother 'Effin picture!
KevinC
6038
Here we are entering September:
We’ve already blown past the record for most triple digit days in a year and it looks like we’ll keep extending that lead.
Dude it’s insane .
We scheduled a trip to Zion national park next week because it’s September, it should start cooling down.
Nope. It’s forecasted to be 107 and 108 the days we are there.
KevinC
6040
Youch! Make sure to keep plenty of water on hand. Is this your first time visiting Zion or have you been before?
We had been a few years back, just did a day hike while visiting Vegas. So this time we are staying right outside the park for 2-3 days. We have our 17 month old this time so we are a bit more limited on what we can hike through, especially with the potential heat.
We are also going to spend a few days at Bryce Canyon, which funnily enough while is only a little over an hour from Zion is only going to have highs in the low 80s. Packing is going to be interesting.
KevinC
6042
Nice! Bryce really is amazing. It’s less well known than Zion but it’s every bit as good.
CraigM
6043
Bryce is significantly up in elevation from Zion is why.
Don’t sleep on Escalante while there! There’s a really cool petrified forest hike right off 12, and there are some of the best slot canyons anywhere there.
